joey_martin

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Also...when sending an elevation or section to layout, you don't have to use the edge and pattern settings. Leave them unchecked and your layer set and material definition settings will rule.

Model it just like you are going to build it.

Whatever fill you assign in plan view will be displayed in cross section using the AUTO DETAIL tool.

Are you asking how do do it?

Painted door trick wont help with con docs...still gonna need to make that door or draw a 2D version in CAD.

Just a marquis select process. Using CAD from VIEW is not a tool I use for sections and elevations. I can count on one hand how many times I have used that tool in the past 2 years, and those time would have been for a remodel/addition floor plan. Hold down the shift key while dragging all the lines in. For the lines that are really close to other...if you look close I probably didn't bother with those.

Nope. I don't use view to cad. If the section or elevation changes I would have to redo the line work, so only the final CDs get that treatment.

I simply used the edit tool in layout and SHIFT SELECTED all the lines I wanted to be light and gray and changed them to that.

Pole building or conventional framing?

You're welcome.

Take a back-clipped cross section, set the position, and then select the 3D Camera from the options, or ha e a 3D Anno & Layer Set.

OK, so next step would be to check the roof planes themselves. Did you trim back the main roof plane and join it with the shed roof? It appears the fascia and/or sub fascia setting of the main roof plan is cutting the shed roof rafter. Post the plan and I'll have a look, or try cutting that main roof plane back. You can still have the overhangs that stick down, but the main sections need to meet at that intersection.

There is most likely an invisible "attic" wall up there causing the issue. And FWIW..that's the depth of the rafter.

You won't need to adjust the wall, simply cut the lower roof plane back and add the upper shed roof and the wall will extend up the meet it. Pretty easy to accomplish these. I also would call that a shed dormer.

How would you add a gate? - Just like adding a door to a wall, add the door and select the style from the libraryIs there a rounded cap for each pole? - Yes, in the library

Using the same lineweight for elevations makes them hard to read the edge lines. And you don't need the view to cad tool for elevation and sections to control the lineweight, you can use an anno set with a layer set for those views that control them.

Set it up in the roof and wall dbx before hand.

Depends on what it's for I guess. There are no dimensions, no driveways or utilities located, no setbacks marked, etc... Even in my jurisdiction, which is super easy to get a permit, the process would have stopped at the lack of site info and been sent back to me for corrections.

Look in the library. There are some in there.

Cupolas

I think first, you need an understanding of how Chief came up with the numbers to begin with. Chiefs line weight numbers are base off old pen plotter sizes for the pens..ie...0.18. .35, etc. I think very few use those old pen plotter any longer, and the newer batch of architects and designers coming out of school have never even seen a pen plotter. So... I came up with a system that makes more sense to me, and to those that I have worked with. I played with these settings until I found a combination that I liked... ...so that 0 is my smallest line and 20 is my largest. I then went through all my layer sets and made the line weights what they needed to be. My floor plan(s) for example... my outside wall later is a 10 and all inside walls and inside layer of outside walls are a 6. Hidden lines are a 3, counter tops a 6, etc... Hope that helps.

It's not that I am for or against per say, just a different view as they are concerned. They weren't/aren't for me, and just bring up that they are not necessary to be efficient.

Which is why I said perhaps.